Not feeling it today

What a day. I'm just glad it's over. Not that it was a bad day. Up early, at 6am to take Alexander to a game in Manteca that he can't play in. Just going to support them, which I have no problem with. But we had to leave during halftime to rush back to RWC so he could see Oscar, the sports massage guy who is going to "cure" him, according to my son. Then we get back and the guy was nowhere to be found. Had to wait 25 minutes for him to show. When Alex walked out of his office, he had NO Pain at all! Of course, it came back but he did some heat therapy on him as well and because he felt so good, Alex is coming out of his slump and posted on FB that he is going to focus on getting better, do things that will benefit him and let nothing stop him. I think the talk we had with him yesterday, coupled with watching his team play today without him, and how good he felt after seeing Oscar, has helped pull him out of his slump.

I am not feeling great today, really exhausted. I know it's because I'm cursed with being a female :) We went and picked up Subway and went home. The plan was for Alex to watch Cassie so I could go to the gym but I HAD to take a nap. I haven't taken a nap in months. I fell asleep for a blissful 2 hours, blissful except that Cassie kept waking me up every 20 minutes to ask me when I was going to wake up, but I felt really good when I did get up. Vacuumed the house, then left for the gym.

Now I don't really enjoy running, but I burn more calories when I do and since I was by myself (poor Jessica is home with the flu) I figured I would just go for a bit an try to run. I haven't run in a week. After 2 minutes, I thought I was gonna die. My stamina was shot. I ended up running for 1 minute, walking fast for 1 minute, but I did it for a full 30 minutes. Walked for another 10 minutes and then went into the studio to stretch for 10 minutes. I cannot believe I am still sore from Tuesday's workout. I do feel better after exercising, so I am glad that I went even though it was tough today. I even had to go and get my second Starbucks of the day, and I haven't needed to do that for a couple of months.

I am really hoping that I feel better tomorrow. It is the Launch for Body Pump and Body Combat and both Alex and Kimi are teaching them. It's going to be so much fun and I have been looking forward to this for 3 weeks. Now I don't know if I will be able to keep up with them given how I feel. I need to wake up in the morning, pop a couple of Advil and plow through it. No excuses. I feel lucky to have two working, strong legs that can work out. Between my son and some friends with injuries, I should not complain about not being able to keep up. I am thankful I can be active.

Need to go to bed soon so I can get up early and psych myself up for a two hour workout. This is one of my two favorite days of the week. Sucks that I am not feeling it.